- Drawing is a progressive, creative skill.…Rarely do you sit down and draw something…perfect the first time.…More than likely, you have to keep drawing,…erasing and redrawing and improving your drawing…as you go along one incremental step upon another.…As I've said before…practice doesn't make perfect.…Process does.…The creative process Stephanie Smith uses…to draw out her artwork demonstrates this well.…She's graciously agreed to let me share that with you.…

So let me show you how a talented drawer…like Stephanie approaches her artwork.…So we're gonna dive into Stephanie's creative process…as she works through an illustration…and she utilizes Drawing.…It all starts in analog.…You can see in this inset box here…that her initial beginning on this design…she's working out started with a very very lose…gestured drawing, thumbnail drawing.…So very loose…and then you can see on this background drawing…she's taken that idea and she's beginning to…tighten it up ever so slightly,…figuring out her composition.…

But it's still very, very loose.…

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3/30/2015

Drawing is for everyone. It just takes practice! Exercise your drawing skills and become better at seeing and capturing the world around you with Von Glitschka's 5-day drawing challenges. This installment asks you to consider different ways of drawing: from thinking "renewably" to getting surrealistic.

Von will assign a drawing challenge for each day. Take the time you need to finish each challenge, and then watch the video where Von shares his own hand-drawn solution. There are no right answers here; his solutions should serve as inspiration. For more encouragement, check out the chapter on staying inspired, featuring artist Stephanie Smith. And don't forget to share your drawings via Twitter and Facebook! Use the hashtag #5daydraw.